Erich Naumann

Erich Naumann (29 April 1905-7 June 1951) was an SS-Brigadefuehrer who was responsible for genocide in Eastern Europe during World War II as an Einsatzgruppen commander.

Biography
Erich Naumann was born in Meissen, Saxony, German Empire on 29 April 1905, and he joined the Nazi Party in November 1929 before becoming a full-time SA member in 1933. In 1935, Naumann joined the Sicherheitsdienst secret police, and he became the commander of Einsatzgruppe B in November 1941, commanding it until March 1943. In this position, Naumann oversaw the mass murder of thousands of Jews, Romani, Slavs, Red Army prisoners-of-war, and other "undesirables", and his Einsatzgruppe possessed three vans used to gas human beings. At his trial for war crimes in 1947, Naumann argued that Adolf Hitler's orders were necessary, as the extermination of "undesirables" was a part of Nazi Germany's war goal. He was sentenced to death and hanged on 7 June 1951.